What book are you reading these days?

[FishGuy]

British schools taught British history in my day. We had to learn all about the Roman invasions and what the Romans brought to us. Then about the Battle of Hastings and the Normans follow the monarchy timeline up to present day including stuff like the Spanish Armarda, Anne Bowlynne, Catholics v Church and the fight between Monarchy and Parlament, the Plague, First and Second world wars.

All sorts. Infact History lessons at my schools only really covered English History. The term "Require" was definately ther because we had no choice and it was part of the curriculum.

However times have changed since then and perhaps they don't anymore. Shame because I love history.

[disruptivehair]

British schools taught British history in my day. We had to learn all about the Roman invasions and what the Romans brought to us. Then about the Battle of Hastings and the Normans follow the monarchy timeline up to present day including stuff like the Spanish Armarda, Anne Bowlynne, Catholics v Church and the fight between Monarchy and Parlament, the Plague, First and Second world wars.

All sorts. Infact History lessons at my schools only really covered English History. The term "Require" was definately ther because we had no choice and it was part of the curriculum.

However times have changed since then and perhaps they don't anymore. Shame because I love history.

It does seem that my older colleagues know more about their own history than I do about my own, and the younger ones (under 25) often don't know anything about anything. I think this is pretty strong evidence for a loosening of standards! It also seems that the older ones can spell and do arithmetic and the younger ones can't. Then again, some of the younger ones we get left school at 16 with few GCSEs and the ones they had were in Mickey Mouse subjects...so it's probably not a wholly representative sample.

[Valleysboy1978]

It does seem that my older colleagues know more about their own history than I do about my own, and the younger ones (under 25) often don't know anything about anything. I think this is pretty strong evidence for a loosening of standards! It also seems that the older ones can spell and do arithmetic and the younger ones can't. Then again, some of the younger ones we get left school at 16 with few GCSEs and the ones they had were in Mickey Mouse subjects...so it's probably not a wholly representative sample.

Very true. Standards have been slipping for a long time because they concentrate more on results now, so the teachers only teach students how to pass the exam.

I can understand they can't teach everything about British/European history because it is far too much (well over 3 thousand years) but I would have liked to learn history of other nations too e.g. U.S., Canada, Australia, Japan, China, India, Africa etc...